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Jim, heard that too this morning. "Wild Thing" was playing, and I thought it was an intro to Mitch Williams being a guest with baseball season about to begin.

I'm sure the ratings were not good on 1440, but ESPN radio was a distinct choice in an Amarillo radio market of sameness. I love oldies and classic rock, but there are at least three other stations in Amarillo that fit that bill. There is nothing in Amarillo like ESPN radio.

It sure filled a void for the sports fan. Hopefully, it's temporary as is everything in radio. But there's a hard-core group of sports listeners out there who really will miss the insightful interviews, the give-and-take, the insider reports that go on just about any time you turn on your radio.

I would flip ESPN radio with other stations, but got no use for YET ANOTHER old-time rock station.

sure you have to pay for it, but you have more sports channels and you never loose the station even in the remote areas in the panhandle. AM radio here stinks at night. They turn down their power and you cant here it up here to the north of Amarillo

At some point Wednesday morning, KPUR (1440-AM) dropped its oldies programming and reverted to ESPN Radio. By 10 a.m., ESPN Radio had returned to the airwaves.

I doubt the power of the press caused the change back to ESPN Radio. More likely, the wrong switch had been flipped over there or some other accidental mixup.

I'm just glad we haven't lost ESPN Radio. I can listen via the Internet, and I often do to the Chicago station. But it's hard to carry my computer, extra-long extension cord and extra-long Internet cable around with me outside the house.

The floating around rumors about the format change on 1440 are probably from the same "source" that keeps expecting the newspaper to quit printing. Whatever happened to at least making one phone call to verify the "rumor". Nice investigative journalism, but ESPN will remain on 1440.

So did y'all even make a phone call to the station before you wrote this? And who in the world pays for satellite radio anymore? They make these things called "computers" and "cell phones" where you can "stream" music and even ESPN for free. It's like paying for the newspaper when all the info is free online, even if it is wrong.